RECKONING FOR THE MILITANT VIOLENT LEAD EARTH OF THE JANUARY 6th INSURRECTION. BREAKING NEWS IN THE LAST FEW MOMENTS, A JUDGE HANDING DOWN AN EXTRAORDINARILY STIFF AND HISTORIC PRISON SENTENCE FOR INSURRECTIONIST AND PROUD BOYCE LEADER ENRIQUE TARRIO. 22 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON. THAT IS NOW, AS OF TODAY, THE LONGEST PRISON SENTENCE ASSOCIATED WITH THE JANUARY 6th INSURRECTION. IT REENFORCES HOW THESE SOMETIMES SLOW WHEELS OF JUSTICE KEEP TURNING. HE WAS CONVICTED IN MAY. WITH THIS SENTENCE HE JOINS ROUGHLY 600 TOTAL INDIVIDUALS CONVICTED OF CRIMES RELATED TO THE STORMING OF THE TRIAL. OTHERS AWAIT CHARGES, OTHERS AWAIT TRIAL. THOSE WERE FOR ALL THEM ON SITE. THE NEW CHARGES ARE AGAINST TRUMP AIDES AND POLITICAL ELITES WHO ARE NOT PRIMARILY AT THE PHYSICAL INSURRECTION ITSELF. THEY STAND ACCUSED OF RELATED CRIMES AND PLOTS WITH THE SAME OVERLAPPING SET OF GOALS -- STEAL THE ELECTION, USE FRAUD AS A PRETENSE TO HELP EFFORTS, TO TRY TO HIJACK THAT JANUARY 6th CERTIFICATION. TODAY'S 22-YEAR SENTENCE AND THESE OTHER INDICTMENTS AND PENDING TRIALS ARE A COMPLETE CRYSTALLIZATION OF HOW THIS IS ALL GOING NOW. LET'S TAKE A LOOK JUST BRIEFLY AT HOW ACCORDING TO MANY IT STARTED, WITH TRUMP AND HIS AIDES PLANNING WAYS TO STEAL THE ELECTION BEFORE PEOPLE VOTED WORK THEN PRESIDENT TRUMP INFAMOUSLY PUBLICLY REFUSING TO HONOR SOMETHING THAT EVERY PRESIDENT ALL THE WAY BACK TO NIXON HAS HONORED FROM NIXON BACK TO WASHINGTON, THAT YOU RESPECT THE OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION IN A DEMOCRACY. HE SAID THE OPPOSITE, AND THEN PROVED THAT HE MEANT IT. THEN HE SAID THIS ABOUT THE NOW CONVICTED PROUD BOYS AND THEIR LEADER WHEN ASKED TO CONDEMN THEM. >> YOU WILLING TONIGHT TO CONDEMN WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND MILITIA GROUPS. >> PROUD BOYS, STAND BACK AND STAND BY. >> THEY DID MORE THAN STAND BY. NOW, THAT WAS A LOW POINT FOR ANY SITTING PRESIDENT IN MODERN HISTORY. THE WORDS YOU HEARD THERE ALONE, WHILE COMPLETELY HEINOUS ACCORDING TO MANY, WERE NOT A CRIME IN THEMSELVES. DEFENDANT TRUMP HAS SINCE BEEN INDICTED FOR THE ACTUAL ACTIONS AND PLOTS HE LAUNCHED AFTER LOSING THE ELECTION, THAT WENT WELL BEYOND STATEMENTS LIKE THAT. TARRIO CONVICTED OF SEDITION. HE AND HIS COCONSPIRATORS VIEWED THEIR ACTIONS, WHAT THEY DID THAT DAY, AS A DIRECT RESPONSE TO WHAT THE LOSING OUTGOING PRESIDENT WAS ASKING OF THEM. AND THE FEDS SAY IT WAS ALL PREMEDITATED. ON JANUARY 4th, 2021, TARRIO TOLD HIS MEN THAT THEY WOULD, QUOTE, STORM THE CAPITOL. THAT IS DAMNING EVIDENCE BECAUSE IT COMPLETELY UNDERCUTS ANY OF HIS POTENTIAL DEFENSES, NOW FAILED AS HE'S BEEN CONVICTED TO SAY THAT THIS SPUN OUT OF CONTROL, THAT IT WAS SOME KIND OF RIOT. WHEN THE ATTACK WAS UNDER WAY, TARRIO CLEARLY VIEWED IT AS HE INTEND AND AND ACHIEVED OUTCOME OF WHAT THEY PLANNED A PRIVATE CHAT HE WROTE, QUOTE, WE DID THIS. YES, THEY DID. YES, SOME OF THE MOST DAMNING EVIDENCE CAME FROM THESE NOW CONVICTED SEDITIONISTS THEMSELVES, WHETHER THAT IS A PRODUCT OF PERSONAL MISTAKES AND ARROGANCE OR SOMETHING THAT IS WRAPPED WITH THE SUPPORT THEY PUBLICLY HAD FROM THEN PRESIDENT TRUMP. THOSE ARE QUESTIONS THAT ARE NOT OF A LEGAL NATURE. THOSE ARE QUESTIONS OF ANALYSIS. HISTORY WILL OF COURSE DIG THROUGH ALL OF THIS. THE NEWS TONIGHT, NEWS I COULDN'T HAVE TOLD YOU 30 MINUTES AGO, THE BREAKING NEWS, IS THAT THIS PROUD BOYS LEADER ENRIQUE TARRIO HAS THE STIFFEST JAIL SENTENCE OF ANYONE TIED TO THE JANUARY 6th INSURRECTION -- 22 YEARS. I WANT TO BRING IN DAVID KELLY, THE FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK AND MY FORMER BOSS. DAVID, YOU LOOK AT A SENTENCE LIKE THIS, IT IS ON THE STIFF HARSH SIDE. HARSHER THAN ANYONE WE'VE SEEN SO FAR. IS THIS JUSTICE? WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU? >> A FEW THINGS. THE JUDGE, JUDGE KELLY CONSIDERED THE TERRORISM ENHANCEMENT, EVEN THOUGH HE'S GONE BELOW WHAT DOJ HAS ASKED FOR. I THINK WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THESE SENTENCES AND THE ONE THIS AFTERNOON IS THIS -- IF I WERE IN A POSITION OF BEING PROSECUTED IN ANY RELATION TO THE CAPITOL INSURRECTION, I'D BE VERY NERVOUS. IF SOMEBODY LIKE FOR INSTANCE TRUMP OR ONE OF HIS CRONIES IS PROSECUTED FOR SOMETHING RELATED TO JANUARY 6th, IT'S HARD TO GIVE THEM A LIGHT SENTENCE WHEN FOLKS LIKE THIS ARE GETTING THESE VARIOUS GIFT SENTENCES. THIS IS STIFF. SO IF YOU GO BACK, ONE OF THE THINGS I THOUGHT ABOUT WHEN I SAW THE SENTENCE WAS, YOU KNOW, I PROSECUTED JOHN WALKER LYNN IN THE WAKE OF THE 9/11 TERRORIST ATTACKS. HE GOT -- I FORGOT EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS, BUT I THINK AROUND 22 YEARS. AND THAT WAS IN THE HYSTERIA -- NOT HYSTERIA, BUT WE WERE ALL VERY RAW IN THE WAKE OF 9/11. AND THIS IS TANTAMOUNT